Palaquium ellipticum(Dalzell) Baill.

WFO wfo-0000262531 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. a T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-19 / obs. 139317907
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by Srinivasan Kasinathan
fig. b Srinivasan Kasinathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53549732
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. c Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43115030
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. d Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 42742054
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by Vijay Karthick
fig. e Vijay Karthick, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162880988
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by T R Shankar Raman
fig. f T R Shankar Raman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111693691
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by madhavan a.p
fig. g madhavan a.p, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155078513
Palaquium ellipticum, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. h Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104692220

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Palaquium ellipticum is native: India India
Native distribution of Palaquium ellipticum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
India IND ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bassia elliptica Dalzell
  • Croixia elliptica (Dalzell) Baehni
  • Dichopsis elliptica Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Isonandra acuminata Lindl. ex Drury

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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